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I am a PhD candidate from Peru who is particularly interested in the phenomena of language contact and language change. My PhD project aims to account for the verbal system of Andean Spanish in Peru from a diachronic and functional perspective (for a short description of my research project see below).

I pursued my first university degree, in Hispanic Linguistics, in 2007 at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 2008, I obtained the degree of Licenciada en Lingüística at my former university after the approval of my thesis titled Marriage proposal in the Andes. An ethnographic and pragmatic approach . In August 2010,Igraduated from the RMA in Linguistics at theUniversity of Amsterdam. My MA thesis, titled A functional approach to the subjectification of facultative meaning: the case of capaz in American Spanish, aimed to account for patterns of subjectification within the domain of modality on the basis of the layered approach of Functional Discourse Grammar (see full version below). 

PhD project: A diachronic and functional approach to the verbal system of Andean Spanish in Peru.

Summary
Thisproject has three main objectives: first, to describe the features that characterize the verbal system of Spanish spoken in the Andes of Peru by Quechua-Spanish bilinguals in  colonial and contemporary times; second, to find out which features from the verbal system in colonial times are still present in the speech of bilinguals nowadays and whether there are innovative features or variants which have developed later in time; and third, to account for the factors that may have contributed to the emergence of those features that distinguish this variety of Spanish from the so-called standard varieties, such as the intensive contact with Quechua. This research is empirical, as it involves the collection, transcription and systematization of data; it is theoretical, as it involves the description and interpretation of data within a theoretical model, namely the model of Functional Discourse Grammar; and it is also explanatory, in the sense that it attempts to account for the emergence of those features that characterize the verbal system of this variety on the basis of explanatory models and theories within the fields of contact linguistics and second language acquisition, taking also into consideration the sociohistorical aspects involved inits development.

Promotores:
dr. Kees Hengeveld
dr. Pieter Muysken
Co-promotor:
dr. Otto Zwartjes

MA thesis

Functional Discourse Grammar

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